Friday, May 24, 2013

7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They Do Not Want You To Know

Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media? In America
today, we are more “connected” than ever. The average American watches
153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours
watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books
and surfing the Internet. If someone could control the production of
all of that media, that would make them immensely powerful. They would
literally be in a position to tell people what to think. Well, what if I
told you that there are just six enormous media conglomerates that
combine to produce about 90 percent of all the media that Americans
consume. Would that alarm you? It should alarm you. The truth is that
our attitudes, opinions and beliefs are greatly shaped by what we allow
into our minds. After all, they don’t call it “programming” for no
reason. Even those of us that realize that we are connected to “the
matrix” probably greatly underestimate the tremendous influence that the
media has over us. We live at a time when it is absolutely imperative
to think for ourselves, but most Americans are being absolutely
overwhelmed with information and seem more than content to let others do
their thinking for them. Sadly, this is greatly contributing to the
downfall of our society.
And of course the mainstream media desperately does not want you to
look at “the man behind the curtain”. They just want you to stay
plugged into the “programming” that they are feeding you without asking
any questions.
Fortunately, a growing minority of Americans are waking up and are
starting to reject the mainstream media. An increasing number of people
are beginning to recognize that the mainstream media is the mouthpiece
of the establishment and that it is promoting the agenda of the
establishment.
So why is the mainstream media so bad? The following are 7 things about the mainstream media that they do not want you to know…#1 The Mainstream Media Has Very Deep Ties To The Establishment
Did you know that the president of CBS and the president of ABC both have brothers that are top officials in the Obama administration?
The big news networks have developed an almost incestuous
relationship with the federal government in recent years. But of course
the same could be said of the relationship that the media has with the
big corporations that own stock in their parent companies and that
advertise on their networks.
This is one of the reasons why we very rarely ever see any hard
hitting stories on the big networks anymore. The flow of information
through the corporate-dominated media is very tightly controlled, and
there are a lot of gatekeepers that make sure that the “wrong stories”
don’t get put out to the public. As a result, many of the “big stories”
that have come out in recent years were originally broken by the
alternative media.#2 The Mainstream Media Gets Things Wrong Very Frequently
Even prominent members of the mainstream media admit that this is the
case. For example, during a recent speech at Quinnipiac University CBS
anchor Scott Pelley confessed that journalists in the mainstream media “are getting big stories wrong, over and over again”…

“Let me take the first arrow: During our coverage of
Newtown, I sat on my set and I reported that Nancy Lanza was a teacher
at the school. And that her son had attacked her classroom. It’s a hell
of a story, but it was dead wrong. Now, I was the managing editor, I
made the decision to go ahead with that and I did, and that’s what I
said, and I was absolutely wrong. So let me just take the first arrow
here.”

#3 The American Public Does Not Consider The Media To Be Very Trustworthy
Trust in the mainstream media has definitely been slipping. In fact,
a Gallup poll taken last year found that distrust of the media had
reached an all-time high. According to that poll, 60 percent of Americans “have little or no trust” that the media is reporting the news accurately.
A separate Rasmussen Reports survey found that only 6 percent of all Americans consider the news media to be “very trustworthy”.
Hopefully this trend will accelerate and a lot more people will stop trusting the media blindly.#4 The Mainstream Media And The Politicians That They Worship Hate The Fact That They Cannot Control Internet News Sites
In the old days, the mainstream media had a virtual monopoly on the
news. But these days, anyone with an Internet connection can put up a
news site, and this is driving the establishment absolutely bonkers.
For example, Barack Obama is known to have a great dislike for the alternative media. The following is from a recent WND article…

NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd says President
Obama was making it “clear” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
over the weekend how he feels about the rise of Internet news sites like
Politico, Buzzfeed and … well, WND.
“He hates it.”
Appearing on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning following Saturday
night’s media, politics and celebrity soiree, Todd explained the
president’s disdain for independent online news sources was showing
during his speech.
“It did seem … I thought his pot shots, joke-wise, and then the
serious stuff about the Internet, the rise of the Internet media and
social media and all that stuff – he hates it, OK? He hates this part of
the media,” Todd said. “He really thinks that the, sort of, the
buzzification – this isn’t just about Buzzfeed or Politico and all this
stuff – he thinks that sort of coverage of political media has hurt
political discourse. He hates it. And I think he was just trying to make
that clear last night.”

#5 The Mainstream Media Is Extremely Liberal
When it comes to politics, the mainstream media is far more liberal than the general population is.
For example, one survey found that 41 percent of American voters believe that the average reporter is more liberal than they are, while only18 percent believe that the average reporter is more conservative than they are.
A very disturbing UCLA study on media bias discovered that the vast majority of media outlets are “left of center”…

Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of
center, with CBS’ “Evening News,” The New York Times and the Los Angeles
Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news
pages of The Wall Street Journal.

And even MSNBC has confirmed the liberal bias of the media. According to MSNBC, mainstream journalists are far more likely to donate their own money to Democrats than they are to Republicans…

MSNBC.com identified 143 journalists who made political
contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign,
according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most
of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to
Democrats and liberal causes. Only 16 gave to Republicans. Two gave to
both parties.

#6 Six Mammoth Media Corporations Produce About 90 Percent Of The Media That Americans Consume
As I mentioned at the top of this article, there are six giant media
behemoths that control almost all of the media that we consume. These
corporate giants own television networks, cable channels, movie studios,
newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, video game makers, music
labels and even many of our favorite websites.
The media ownership chart posted below originally comes from a previous article that I authored entitled “Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read“,
but it has been updated to reflect some of the latest information. The
power that these companies have is so vast that it is hard to put into
words…Time Warner
CNN
Home Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
TMZ
New Line Cinema
Time Warner Cable
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
TBS
TNT
America Online
MapQuest
Moviefone
Castle Rock
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
DC Comics
People MagazineWalt Disney
ABC Television Network
Disney Publishing
ESPN Inc.
Disney Channel
The History Channel
SOAPnet
A&E
Lifetime
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
277 Radio Stations
Buena Vista Games
Hyperion BooksViacom
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Comedy Central
Country Music Television (CMT)
Logo
MTV
MTV Canada
MTV2
Nick Magazine
Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon
Noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
VH1News Corporation
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
The New York Post
TV Guide
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Beliefnet
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Net
Fox Television Network
FX
My Network TV
MySpace
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
STAR World
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
Times of London
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
20th Century Fox Television
BSkyB
DIRECTV
The Wall Street Journal
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Interactive Media
FOXTEL
HarperCollins Publishers
The National Geographic Channel
National Rugby League
News Interactive
News Outdoor
Radio Veronica
ReganBooks
Sky Italia
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
STAR
ZondervanCBS Corporation
CBS News
CBS Sports
CBS Television Network
CNET
Showtime
TV.com
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
CW Network (50% ownership)
Infinity Broadcasting
Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
Westwood One Radio NetworkComcast
NBC
Bravo
CNBC
NBC News
MSNBC
NBC Sports
NBC Television Network
Oxygen
SciFi Magazine
Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
Telemundo
USA Network
Weather Channel
Focus Features
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal Television Studio
Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
Hulu
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Pictures
Universal Studio Home Video#7 The American People Are Absolutely Addicted To The Mainstream Media
In a previous article about the media, I noted that the average American watches 153 hours of television a month.
When you allow that much information to be downloaded into your brain, it is going to have a dramatic impact on how you think.
Americans are more “connected” than they ever have been before. This
is especially true of our kids. They are constantly on one sort of
electronic device or another. The following is a brief excerpt from a
recent article by Daniel Taylor…

If that Los Angeles Times report is true, that means that our young
people are spending more than 200 hours a month connected to the media.
But we are only awake for about 480 hours a month.
When it comes to influencing the American people, nobody has more power than the big media companies do.
And until we can break this sick addiction to the mainstream media
and get people to start thinking for themselves, we will never see
widespread changes in our society. As long as people are being
“programmed” by the mainstream media, they will continue to express the
opinions, attitudes and beliefs that have been downloaded into their
minds.
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